Deborah Copaken Kogan graduated from Harvard in 1988. From 1988 to 1992 she worked as a photojournalist, and her work appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, L'Express, and hundreds of other international newspapers and magazines. She spent the next six years in TV journalism, most recently as a producer for Dateline NBC. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.